Version Confusion

[tbohon]

I'm trying to get my head around the various names (Panther, Darwin, etc.) used by Apple to designate their various system releases. Can somebody who knows what these are post a simple explanation and end my frustration?

Thanks in advance.

Tom

 

[jimoblak]

You could always see apple.com and opendarwin.org

Darwin is not really a system release like what the average user sees in Panther. Darwin is a significant portion (the nuts and bolts) of Panther.

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[Zelandakh]

I believe:

Darwin X.0
Aqua X.1
Jaguar X.2
Panther X.3

They all look the same and were based on Rhapsody. First 2 might be the wrong way round.

 

[jimoblak]

Are you saying that Darwin and Aqua is no longer used in Panther 10.3?

I was under the silly impression that Aqua is the GUI that runs on top of Darwin. Together, these make the operating system that the average user sees in Jaguar and Panther.

I think Apple should kill off the cat names. They get confusing. What happens when they get to 'Lion', the king of cats? Do they move on to variations of geese?

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[Zelandakh]

Aqua was the interface name but I thought it was adopted as the name for the build.

X.4 should be Lion. Then Lioness presumably as the female is more deadly than the male?

 

[drlex]

Zel,
I'm sure Jim is right as regards the nomenclature. And that's before one starts considering Carbon and Cocoa...
My money's on cheetah for 10.4 - as OSX could do with a better turn of speed. I never found Clarence the cross-eyed lion (Daktari) too threatening

soi la, soi carre

 

[bischerboy]

OSX names - Puma - got to be the next one (otherwise I would settle for leopard)

 

[drlex]

Saw something on

http://www.enn.ie

today that indicated Tiger is the new name for 10.4.

soi la, soi carre